This is an analysis of the poem Our Lady's Song that begins with:
Iesu, swete sone dere!
On porful bed list thou here,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 1101111 111101 11100101 111111 11110 101111 1111111 01101 01011101 1111111 11111011 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word iesu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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